OPUS ANGLICANUM

Unique Entertainments of Words and Music

OPUS ANGLICANUM

We give performances of our own intriguing and audience-friendly story-telling sequences. These are carefully crafted, using narrated texts and unaccompanied sung music of all kinds.

The Music

We use the full historical European repertoire of polyphony, part songs, street song, music-hall and traditional song, from the present right through the ages back to the seventh century chant of the Roman church, as well as commissioning our friends among contemporary composers: Judith Bingham, Sally Beamish, Gordon Crosse, Howard Skempton, Dobrinka Tabakova, Owain Park, Peter Nardone, Patrick Larley, Sasha Johnson Manning, David Bednall, Malcolm Archer, Gabriel Jackson, Diana Burrell, Cheryl Frances Hoad

Opus Anglicanum will bring their most popular Christmas concert to Saxon Shore Early Music after many sell-out years at Wells Cathedral. Thoughtful texts will interweave with mediaeval carols and plainchant in the magical candlelit setting of the Church of St. Mary, Kenardington (near Ashford).

Opus Anglicanum bring their most popular Christmas concert to London for the first time after many sell-out years at Wells Cathedral. Thoughtful texts interweave with mediaeval carols and plainchant in the magical candlelit setting of St James' Church, Spanish Place, Marylebone, London.

 If you want to escape the usual seasonal fare completely, you could not do better than to find in your stocking Mediaeval Carols. Opus Anglicanum - five superb male singers and a reader - presents a feast of words and music of the very highest quality.

Performers

JOHN BOWEN was a chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral, choral scholar Kings’ College Cambridge, studied Royal College of Music. Career in England and Europe - as soloist including Staatsoper Berlin and at La Monnaie Opera, Brussels & as ensemble singer including René Jacobs’s Baroque opera projects in Florence, Brussels, New York, London etc. Recordings for Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion.

STEPHEN BURROWS is Director of Music The Oratory School, Reading. Studied Bristol University (University Organ Scholar). Sang in choirs of St George’s Chapel, Windsor; Westminster Cathedral. Works as ensemble singer (Tenebrae, The Orlando Consort, New London Consort, Royal Opera House) and as soloist. Has contributed a number of special arrangements for Opus Anglicanum.

DAVID DE WINTER was a chorister of Westminster Cathedral, and studied at Durham University and the Royal Academy of Music (Stanley Picker Trust and Leverhulme awards). He sings in Westminster Cathedral choir. Opera - Billy Budd (Glyndebourne and New York) Hugh the Drover - title role Hampstead Garden Opera. Soloist and recitalist (London English Song Festival & St James’ s Piccadilly).

ROLAND ROBERTSON Director of Music Prior Park College, Bath (productions of musicals Guys and Dolls etc; operas eg Magic Flute, Giovanni, Figaro, Dido, Noye’s Fludde). Chorister Canterbury and Winchester, Organ Scholar Wells Cathedral, Choral Scholar King's College Cambridge, studied Royal Northern College of Music before career as professional singer. Roland directs the music for Opus Anglicanum.

JOHN ROWLANDS-PRITCHARD studied with Professor John Stevens and Dr. Mary Berry at Cambridge, with John Kentish, and at the Mayer-Lismann Opera Centre. Sang in choirs of Ely cathedral & Wells cathedral, and as jobbing soloist with oratorio and choral societies. John founded Opus Anglicanum in 1988 and is responsible for composing its unique sequences. He retired from performing with the group in July 2017 but continues to lead OA's popular Mediaeval Chant workshops.

ZEB SOANES is a familiar and trusted voice across the BBC. He is a Radio 4 Newsreader for those who wake up to The Today Programme and puts the nation to bed with The Shipping Forecast. He is a regular on Radio 4’s The News Quiz, reports for From Our Own Correspondent and has presented Radio 3’s Saturday Classics. Sunday Times readers voted him their favourite male voice on UK radio. www.zebsoanes.com

Assured and polished.

— Classic FM Magazine

Contact Us

For bookings, enquiries or to request a bespoke concert please complete the form below or telephone John Bowen on 07969 549374